TY - BOOK AU - Creswell,John W. TI - Qualitative inquiry & research design: choosing among five approaches SN - 9781412916066 (hbk.) : AV - H61 .C73 2006 U1 - 300.7 CRE PY - 2006/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif., London PB - SAGE KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Society KW - ukslc KW - Research methods: general KW - thema KW - Social research & statistics N1 - Previous ed.: 1998; Includes bibliographical references and index; Philosophical, paradigm, and interpretive frameworks--Designing a qualitative study--Five qualitative approaches to inquiry--Five different qualitative studies--Introducing and focusing the study--Data collection--Data analysis and representation--Writing a qualitative study--Standards of validation and evaluation--Turning the story and conclusion N2 - This text compares and contrasts the five major qualitative traditions: biography, case study, ethnography, grounded theory, and phenomenology. Five actual journal articles are reproduced in the appendix as examples of the different research designs ER -